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42 USC § 246a - Bureau of State Services management fund; establishment; advancements; availability 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s246a"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 246a - Bureau of State Services management fund; establishment; advancements; availability"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "246a"
section_name: "Bureau of State Services management fund; establishment; advancements; availability"
chapter_number: 6
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES"
part_number: "B"
part_name: "Federal-State Cooperation"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 86–703, title II, § 201, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 765; Pub. L. 91–515, title II, § 282, Oct. 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 1308.)"
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# § 246a. Bureau of State Services management fund; establishment; advancements; availability

*Provided**Provided further*

For the purpose of facilitating the economical and efficient conduct of operations in the Bureau of State Services which are financed by two or more appropriations where the costs of operation are not readily susceptible of distribution as charges to such appropriations, there is established the Bureau of State Services management fund. Such amounts as the Secretary may determine to represent a reasonable distribution of estimated costs among the various appropriations involved may be advanced each year to this fund and shall be available for expenditure for such costs under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary: , That funds advanced to this fund shall be available only in the fiscal year in which they are advanced: , That final adjustments of advances in accordance with actual costs shall be effected wherever practicable with the appropriations from which such funds are advanced.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 86–703, title II, § 201, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 765; Pub. L. 91–515, title II, § 282, Oct. 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 1308.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

### Amendments

1970— substituted “Secretary” for “Surgeon General” wherever appearing.